The city was strategically founded on elevated ground to protect inhabitants from floods that often swept through the valley. Sun-baked mud bricks, composed of soil and straw, formed the primary ...

Most Indus buildings were made from mud bricks. Over time, people built new houses on top of old ones. So, over hundreds of years, the cities grew higher and higher.

The Indus Valley Civilization (IVC), or Harappan Civilization, as it came to be called, also had extensive terrestrial and maritime trade connections with, among others, Central Asia, Mesopotamia ...

The Indus Valley was home to one of the world's first large civilisations. ... Most Indus buildings were made from mud bricks. Over time, people built new houses on top of old ones.

In the mid-1850s, a few years after the British annexation of the Punjab, some railway builders stumbled upon an ancient mound of terracotta bricks at Harappa in the valley of the Ravi.